* How to reduce polarization? Better journalism.
* Alleged side effects of majoring in political science.
* Politics everywhere: many fewer fires, but the same number of firefighters.
* Reporting from the APSA panel on the NSF. Rep. Lipinski noted that a more immediate concern than the reauthorization of the NSF is Rep. Lamar Smith’s proposed Higher Quality Research Act. For more on that, see here. One set of objections is here.